To: alt.zen
From: jom@ntrs.com (Ned Ludd)
Subject: Re: Zen
Date: 28 Nov 1994 11:14:14 GMT
Huai Jang asked Tao I, "How can sitting meditation make a Buddha?"
Tao I said, "Then what would be right?" Jang said, "It's like an
ox pulling a cart. If the cart won't go, would you hit the cart,
or would you hit the ox?" Tao I had no answer. Jang continued,
"In the midst of transitory things, one should neither grasp nor
reject. If you keep the Buddha seated, this is murdering the
Buddha; if you cling to the form of sitting, this not attaining
its inner principle." Tao I stayed with Huai Jang for 10 years.